Research has shown that piperine can help your body burn the same amount of calories as walking for 20 minutes, as well as speed up your fat metabolism by as much as 8% up to several hours after ingestion. Black pepper has also the ability to improve digestion and increase the absorption of nutrients from food.
But while European newspapers splashed the news onto their front pages, other energy-crisis related news largely went unreported. Last year, for example, coal mining accidents killed 4,233 in China alone, while coal pollutants killed an estimated 13,200 Americans. And while you may remember a few of the 25 worst energy-related disasters of 2010, most went unnoticed by Western media and the public. When you actually do the math, coal kills somewhere on the order of 4,000 times more people per unit of energy produced than nuclear power.
The incidence of industrial bronchitis varies with age, job, exposure, and smoking. In nonsmokers (who are less prone to develop bronchitis than smokers), studies of coal miners have shown a 16% to 17% incidence of industrial bronchitis. In 2013 CWP resulted in 25,000 deaths down from 29,000 deaths in 1990.